Serial verb constructions in Sign Language of the Netherlands

Bos, Heleen

doi:10.1075/sll.19.2.04bos

Article published In: Sign Language & Linguistics
Vol. 19:2 (2016) ► pp.238–251

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Serial verb constructions in Sign Language of the Netherlands

Heleen Bos | University of Amsterdam

Published online: 14 April 2017

https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.19.2.04bos

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